#outs

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#any #black #circles #condemned #destructive

When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family. ↗

— Lance Loud

#family #friends #grown #link #out

My stepdad provided me with an amazing childhood. I played outside like a normal kid, I rode my bike, I walked to school, but the happiest times were when I was acting. ↗

— Demi Lovato

#amazing #bike #childhood #happiest #i

We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA. ↗

— James Lovelock

#chance #earth #exploration #go #got

My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy. ↗

— Juliette Gordon Low

#energies #future #girl #girl scouts #go

So when we finally settled down outside of Seattle I felt totally uncomfortable with that idea. ↗

— Josh Lucas

#felt #finally #i #idea #outside

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#his #home #inside #man #may

I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist. ↗

— David Lynch

#between #connected #exist #here #i

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#bugs #diamond #fingers #hold #i

I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#because #been #culture #different #different kind